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“Esprits protecteurs de l’humanité, avons-nous vraiment réfléchi aux puissances que déploie la passion chez l’humain ? Avons-nous examiné pourquoi un homme peut traverser un champ de flammes pour atteindre la femme qu’il aime ? Avons-nous réfléchi à l’effet du sexe sur le corps des amants ? À la symétrie de son pouvoir ? Avons-nous étudié ce que la poésie éveille en leur âme, et la marque des mots doux sur un cœur attendri ? Avons-nous contemplé la physionomie de l’amour, analysé pourquoi certaines relations sont mort-nées, d’autres naissent handicapées et atrophiées, tandis que certaines parviennent à l’âge adulte et durent toute la vie des amants ?”

Book:An Orchestra of Minorities

Source: An Orchestra of Minorities

“He -- himself a man of much sorrow -- knew that despair was the disease of the soul, able to destroy an already battered life.”

Despair Destruction Of Self

Book:An Orchestra of Minorities

Source: An Orchestra of Minorities

“When fear takes possession of the heart of a person, it diminishes them.”

People Hope Fear Scared Fears

Book:The Fishermen

Source: The Fishermen

“Akataka, it is a common phenomenon among mankind to attempt to flip precedence: to try to bring that which has gone forward back. But it always, always fails.”

Progress Human Nature Resistance To Progress

Book:An Orchestra of Minorities

Source: An Orchestra of Minorities

“Mais il ignorait encore que rien, jamais, n’appartient pleinement à personne.”

Relationship Ownership

Book:An Orchestra of Minorities

Source: An Orchestra of Minorities

“The river has a distinct place in the mythologies of the people because in their universe, water is supreme. They know that all rivers are maternal and therefore capable of birthing things.”

Water Nature Birth Capacity Renewal Feminity

Book:An Orchestra of Minorities

Source: An Orchestra of Minorities

“He spoke slowly, his voice deeper and louder, every word tacked nine-inches deep into the beams of our minds.”

Metaphor Fathers And Sons

Book:The Fishermen

Source: The Fishermen

“For the truth remains that more can also be more, and that less is often inevitably less.”

Style Prose Style Of Writing Stylistics

Book:An Orchestra of Minorities

Source: An Orchestra of Minorities